Category: Culture

In the basement of a landmark 27-story tower in Stockholm’s central Kungsholmen district, Owe Pettersson is hoping to sow the seeds of an indoor urban farming revolution. Pettersson is the chief executive of Plantagon, a new Stockholm-based urban farming venture set to kick off operations in the basement of an office block in the Swedish […]

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Sir, Jonathan Margolis sets the bar for agriculture’s next revolution too low (“Urban farmers struggle to reap mass-market benefits”, FT.com, February 1). The next wave of food production, including the Gotham Greens and Sundrop Farms cases he mentions, will not be based on Schumacher’s “small is beautiful”. Rather, the new wave will be based on […]

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Early numbers indicated that Black Panther would make between $100 million and $120 million in its opening weekend. As hype and wild pre-sale ticket numbers grew, though, that humble number got nudged higher and higher—all the way to $170 million a few days before the film finally hit theaters. Now, after the complete four-day weekend, the real numbers are […]

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Apple is expanding its Apple Music student discount pricing to 82 new regions by the end of the month, including Israel, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, and Taiwan, according to iMore’s Rene Richtie. The discount offers 50 percent off the usual subscription price. The offer had already been available in the US, UK, Denmark, Ireland, […]

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Some people tend to leave their umbrellas everywhere and, um, we’re one of them. But another thing we always misplace is our blush brush, and contour brush, and concealer brush, and … you get the picture. Long story short: our vanity always needs a new set of brushes, if only because we’re a teensy bit […]

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More than 110 child-health advocates have called on Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to pull the firm’s Messenger Kids app aimed at under 13s, warning of the dangers of social media for children. In an open letter led by the Boston-based Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, signed by doctors, educators and child health experts including baroness Susan Greenfield, warn that “younger […]

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Nathalie Emmanuel — who plays Missandei on “Game of Thrones” — caught our attention when she wore cobalt blue lipstick for the “Game of Thrones” panel at San Diego Comic-Con. But it’s her latest — completely makeup-free — look on Instagram that’s really making waves. On Sunday, the actress uploaded a close-up photo of her face without any makeup on social media. This […]